— UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: Senate Democrats passed their universal health care plan, which was widely attacked for its $15 billion price tag. It got dropped during budget talks, and Democrats are now trying to figure out how to retool it. Top Democrats say it remains a priority and will be debated this year.

— HOSPITAL TAX: Senate Democrats are trying to revive the 0.8 percent hospital tax as a way to drum up more federal money for Medicaid patients and replace a $200 million transfer from the patients’ compensation fund that is the subject of a lawsuit filed Monday by the Wisconsin Medical Society.

— CABLE DEREGULATION: A bill designed to make it easier for telecommunications giant AT&T to enter the cable TV market already passed the Assembly and is slated to move out of committee Wednesday, meaning it could pass the Senate as soon as next week.

— CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Gov. Jim Doyle said it remains a priority even though he won’t call a special session this fall as reformers said his chief of staff had promised. Given the lack of common ground between Democrats and Republicans, major changes aren’t likely this year.

— FRANKENSTEIN VETO: Doyle’s use of the so-called “Frankenstein veto,” which allowed him to cut individual words and letters in the budget to create new meaning, may help revive an effort to ban the practice. A proposed constitutional amendment cleared the Legislature last year, and the Assembly passed it a second time this year. The Senate also must pass it before it would go to voters for their consideration.

— MORNING AFTER PILL: The Senate has passed a bill requiring hospitals to give rape victims information about emergency contraception and provide the pill upon request. An Assembly committee advanced a version of the bill that would allow hospitals to get out of the requirement on moral or religious grounds. Compromise could be reached in the coming months.

— AUTISM: Doyle said he will push a requirement that insurance companies cover autism. It had been removed from the budget.

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